NAMI Sacramento Presentations

NAMI Sacramento is active in the community, making presentations to groups on the subject of mental illness. We share electronic copies of those presentations below for your information when they are available.

• 10/3/07: Police Training
  Police Training Training for new Sacramento Sheriff's Department recruits by Heidi Sanborn, NAMI Sacramento President at the time, and Andy O'Hara, NAMI member and retired CHP Officer.
  
  
  
  10/27/07 update: NAMI Sacramento has been recognized by the national NAMI Crisis Intervention Team for the visionary effort to educate police and sheriff's cadets over the last ten years. NAMI cites the statistics: on the average, 150 officers die in the line of duty annually, but 450 commit suicide.  For the last five years, our former president Heidi Sanborn, and members Andy O'Hara and Harry Nicholas have routinely done these training sessions to teach law enforcement how to protect their own mental health. We're lucky to have members with such insight and dedication. See NAMI's Crisis Intervention Team news for more.
  
  
• 8/25/07: Mental Health Matters, Channel 17
  NAMI Sacramento board member Al Lipson was interviewed on the subject of out-of-county placements and his advocacy to keep ill people in the county where they have family and friends.
  
  
• 4/20/07: KFBK Radio Show on Mental Illness
  NAMI Sacramento President Heidi Sanborn was on air live with a panel including
  Dr. Cam Carter of the UCD Early Detection and Preventative Treatment clinic, and NAMI Sacramento members Dawn Corriea and Steve Porter. This was an opportunity to talk publicly about the mental health system, the needs for improvement, the need to reduce stigma so people will get help, and what NAMI can do to support families and consumers.
  
  
• 4/9/07: KNCI Radio Show with Freddie Bueno on Mental Health
  KNCI FM 105.1 aired a one-hour radio show with Tom of the Pat and Tom Morning Show, NAMI Sacramento President Heidi Sanborn, NAMI Sacramento member Dawn Correia, Dr. Robin Zasio and DJ Freddie Bueno on the subject of mental health.
  
  
• 4/3/07: Childhood Mental Health Issues
  NAMI Sacramento President Heidi Sanborn made a presentation to 15 teachers in continuing education class at CSUS, along with Lael Waltz, President of NAMI Nevada County, and 'Nafeesah Mustafa-Rasheed, Elk Grove School District employee.
  
  
• 3/27/07: Sacramento Psychiatric Society Monthly Meeting
  NAMI Sacramento President Heidi Sanborn addressed local doctors at their monthly meeting before the Folsom City Council hearing on housing for disabled people. The doctors discussed homelessness and how to provide seamless services to people who are homeless and severely mentally ill. Approximately 30 doctors attended.
  
  
• 3/13-14/07: Central CA Psychiatric Society Annual Conference in Monterey: "Calling All Doctors — We Need You!"
  NAMI Sacramento President Heidi Sanborn was asked to be a panelist to address the doctors after seeing Out of the Shadow and to be the keynote presenter at their luncheon on Saturday to discuss advocacy for mental health. It was very well received and Heidi was told by several doctors that they will contact their local NAMI affiliates to work more closely with them in advocating for better services in Merced and other counties.
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• 3/9/07: Mental Health Courts and the Criminalization of People with Mental Illness
  Given at the NAMI Sacramento General Meeting by panelists Dr. Gregory Sokolov and Judge Talmadge Jones on March 9, 2007
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• 2/28/07: Police Training
  Police Training Training for 35 County recruits by Heidi Sanborn, NAMI Sacramento President, and Andy O'Hara, retired CHP Officer.

• 2/20/07: U.S. Representatives Hearing on Mental Health Parity
  NAMI Sacramento President Heidi Sanborn testified at a hearing hosted by Representatives Patrick Kennedy and Doris Matsui on February 20th at the U.C. Davis Mind Institute in support the Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 (S 558).
  See Heidi's testimony. Go to Current Issues for more information on parity.
  

• 1/18-19/07: Families Helping Families
  NAMI Sacramento presentation at the School to World Conference, "Serving Youth with Emotional Disturbance and Transition-Aged Youth - Best Practices," hosted by the Sacramento County Office of Education at California State University, Sacramento, on January 18-19, 2007
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